A giant leap for birdmen as fliers bid to win £10k prize
SOME in the annual Birdman contests take it seriously but for others it’s just a drop in the ocean.
Thousands watched the best British eccentrics aim to fly at least 100 metres (109 yards) at the weekend.
The serious and the not-so-serious leapt off the pier in the Worthing International Birdman competition in West Sussex to win £10,000.
Joel Hicks, of Leicester, jumped through a glider in a Battle For The Skies stunt.
But Tony Hughes won first prize for hanggliding 106.5 metres.